Touring homophobia: Understanding the Soulforce Equality Ride as a toxic tour

LG Spencer, JT Barnett - Southern Communication Journal, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Southern Communication Journal, 2013Taylor & Francis
This article considers the 2010 Soulforce Equality Ride, a movement of queer Christian
students who traveled around the country protesting conservative Christian colleges and
universities with anti–lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) policies. We argue that the
movement is comparable to a toxic tour, as described by Pezzullo, because of the
harmfulness of the campuses' policies, the difficult rhetorical challenge the movement faces,
and the importance of presence for the Equality Ride activists and the students they met …
This article considers the 2010 Soulforce Equality Ride, a movement of queer Christian students who traveled around the country protesting conservative Christian colleges and universities with anti–lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) policies. We argue that the movement is comparable to a toxic tour, as described by Pezzullo , because of the harmfulness of the campuses' policies, the difficult rhetorical challenge the movement faces, and the importance of presence for the Equality Ride activists and the students they met along the way. We understand the conservative Christian college campuses as environments and the anti-LGB rhetoric and policies as toxins. We argue that the movement offers hope by undermining the notion that LGB sexualities and Christian spirituality are mutually exclusive categories of binary opposition.
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